Listened to Rattus properly for the first time in don't know how many years and liked it so much more than before. I think back in the day I wasn't quite ready for how much of a pub rock album it is, with the way the lyrics are barked out and yelled etc. I just wanted something more akin to the arty postpunk of The Raven and Gospel, or at least the punk of No More Heroes. Always loved Peaches and Grip though.
It's the Stranglers album of choice of their original following, a bunch of loud working or low-middle class pub-going British geezers, and it rules.
